While magnet fishing on Lake Michigan, a family managed to pull up an artillery shell, a rusty remnant from a former U.S.

Jim Shell thought he could figure out how to target burbot on the reefs of the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan. And he did.

First responders went out for a day of fishing on Lake Michigan Tuesday, with a lot more than catching fish on their minds.

The warmest water temperature of the Great Lakes today is 81.1 degrees in Lake Erie and the coldest is at 65.1 degrees in Lake Michigan.

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Henes is part of the Great Lakes Landing Blitz, a campaign to remind boaters to clean, drain and dry their boats. Invasives ...